The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-11-18
NEWS AND OTHER NOTIsGS.

I
NO bills are issued IN this country of the
value or 500 600. the highest legal tender
notes being those Of $40 900.
A lady OF Austin, Tex. has made an
entire dress OF common spool thread. She
used ten thousand yards OF thread and wss
three months doing it.
Coffee was first used in Arabia about
li2O. and introducadI ct Cairo 10 1880, at
ConstsntinnpIe In 1854. st Venice In 1918, at
Paris In l644 and In London in 1857
-Sharks have for some time been Great
ing havoc among the soft-shelled crabs OF
! Cbesapeak, Bay. One WAS lately caught
that had In its stomach q bushel OF the deli
| eacIes.
! The northern boundary OF the United
States Is lined by 3S5 prominent marks In
the shape OF iron pillars, stone cnirn. and
mouods. extending between the ROcKy
Mountains and the Lake OF the Woods and
at = distance OF a mile apart.
Along the Galsna river in Illinois and
Wisconsin recently wagon loads of dead fish
| were piled up. Many theories accounting
for the phenomenon are advanced, but none
OF q satisfactory nature. and thus far the
cause OF the fatality Is mystery.
An agent OF a steamship line says that
about one hundred thousand people cross to
| Europe each Year at an ge cost OF i've
! hundred dollars. This would make al ag-
rreaate of fifty million dollars spent aDnu-
ally by Americans in iourneying to Europe
To lay d We miles OF track il takes !, go
| rails weighing In the aggregate ,O56 600
! pounds. Tospike this requires 10 $50 spikes.
! weighing Z 200 pounds. 1t also takes I, ,o4O
! bolts for every i've miles. Five miles OF
| ties number Is. 200. or enough to make q
| small forest.
A gang OF tIe choppers in Colorado re-
Gently aw two large buck deer In deadly
combat on the ride OF = mountain, pear
Trinidad. The snImsIs' horns had become
locked together so that the men had no DIM
Guilty In approaching and killing tho deer
With their axes.
An enormous apple crop gathered by
Connecticut farmers this season In some
sections OF the State the fruit could be bad
for the mere csrting away. and the Meriden
Journal cities an Instance where q farmer
offered $40 20 the person who would remove
| several hundred bushels from his land, that
the cattle might get tho grass which the ap-
plea covered.
No doubt few people outside OF North
Carolina are aware OF tbe extent of the
dried blackberry Interest In the Piedmont
section OF the State. One day last week.
one farm in Greensboro shipped ls,o
pounds TO the Northern markets, where
they are held in high estimation. The pItk.
Ing and drying OF the fruit furnish occups-
lion ard r. munerstion to q large class OF
persons In moderate circumstances.
1t takes a Hindoo II d.ys 20 cut an acre
OF grain by thr primitive method he employs
/ With a small. curved blade he sewers the
sta - by the hsndfnls ss be squat. upon his
heels. The wages of harvester are said to
be about 30 cents per week, without board
! These people will have nothing TO do with
the modern threshing machine. They pre-
FER the "bhooss.'' or trsmplng process.
They clean tito grain by the aid OF the
wind.
Floods In this country as well az in
Europe have often caused great loss OF life.
but the record OF ths worst Of them sinks
into insignincsnce when compared with the
recent Inundations in China, In one OF which
1000 men were drowned. while hundreds Of
less. Man Is creature at the mercy OF
many Instruments OF III, and he is still
mere pigmy when forced to fight the anger
ed elements.
In some European countries the con-
clusion Of The harvest 10 celebrated by boil
Ing or other~I.e preparing whole wheat It
Is boiled enough TO cause the outer shell or
bran 10 loosen. and this Is beaten so that Il
separates and floats, while the heavier grain
remains At the bottom OF the vessel This
whole wheat thus prepared is called by the
English "fruDrrty." II ia very nutritious
and when sneetened with sugar 1. sccepta-
h!e TO most pslates.
John Mes, OF Bangor, Ne, gave q eat
to the captain OF a vessel going 10 Boston
hve or six weeks ago. The boat WAS at
Boston several days, but the cat did not
leave IT, A. soon as the vessel returned to
Bangor, however, the animsl.jumped ashore
aud disappeared, and soor after was pur-
ring happily IN her favorite corner in Mr..
Meas kitchen. As she had been carried to
the boat in covered basket. Mr.. Mea is
puzzled to know how she found her way
home again.
The Democrat. published at westnins-
ter, Carroll county, Md. says: Mr.. Peter
J. GeimaD. residing near Nelrose, Is the
Champion pumpkin raiser as far as heard
from On one vine he raised 755 pounds
OF pumI kins, there being forty-eIght iu sIl.
The largest weighed IFS pounds, two
weighed ll0 pounds each, another IO2
pounds, and still another 100 pounds. The
others were of less weight. bu. none Of
them were small A ton and a quarter of
pump kips from one vine, Is not easy TO be
.quRled.
just how the use OF tobacco was re-
Rarded in New ENGLAND, 10 the early days
two laws show. One was made at Harvard
soon after the foundation OF the Institution.
and read NO scholars shall take tobacc O
unless permitted by the President, with the
consent OF their parents and guardians, and
on good reason first given bv q physician
ard then In 4 private ana sober manner"
The otner is In the Old Massachusetts, Col
ony laws. aid prescrIbes the punishment for
any one who shall smoke tobacco In any
inn or cCmm on victualing house, except In
private room, so as that neither the
innster OF said house nor any guest shall
take ofense thereat"
Rev. Father HeInsn. pastor of St. Jo-
sephs German Catholic church In East
Mauch Chunk, Pa. has DECLARED war on
oustles. He brands them as unsightly, as a
production of vanity, and - sltogcther i'm
moral He further asserts that unless the
woman Os his CONGREGATION old and younu